Dan Reed Network — Let’s Hear It For The King Dan Reed Network is back with “Let’s Hear It For The King”, the band’s first album since 2018 “Origins”. The album was supposed to be released earlier this year but was delayed and finally sees its release this week. Dan…

Michael Schenker Group — Universal Michael Schenker Group is back with another new record less than 18 months after 2021’s “Immortal”. “Universal” has 13 tracks and features a few different vocalists, but Ronnie Romero is at the helm for the majority of the record. “Emergency” gets things started and it…

Def Leppard — Diamond Star Halos After seven years of re-releases and live albums, Def Leppard is back with a new album titled “Diamond Star Halos”. The album comes out just before the band is to embark on the “Stadium Tour” this summer with Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett. …

Skills — Different Worlds Frontiers Records continues to find new combinations of musicians to create bands. Sometimes the results have been fantastic (see Black Swan). Other times the chemistry just hasn’t been there. But it’s always a good thing to get more music from these classic hard rock musicians. One…

Halestorm — Back From The Dead Halestorm have released their fifth record, titled “Back From The Dead”, their first record since 2018’s Vicious. The band started recording the record shortly before the COVID lockdown and singer/songwriter Lzzy Hale is quoted as saying “this album is the story of me carving…

Jeff Scott Soto — Complicated Jeff Scott Soto is a very busy man. According to his bio, he has “more than 60 albums under his belt”. Whether he’s fronting his current band Soto, releasing solo records or fronting supergroups like Sons of Apollo and W.E.T., …

Thunder — Dopamine There is a lot of music out there. Even just in the main genres that I listen to there is more music than I could ever listen to. There are some bands that I just flat out don’t get to hear. Thunder is one of those bands. …

Crashdiet — Automaton Hard rock fans reminisce about the good old days on the Sunset Strip when rock was king. But the good old days are still alive and well even if not in Hollywood. Sweden is the new home of hard rock royalty. Eclipse are the kings of New…

FM — Thirteen FM is a British rock band that’s been around since 1984. Their thirteenth studio release is appropriately titled “Thirteen”. Over the last decade the band has been quite busy after taking a 25 year break in 1995. “Thirteen” is the follow up to their 2020 release “Synchronized”. …